Collection search - The Mississagua Nation of Indians to His Majesty - Release - IT 068

GAD Reference number: IT 068;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 22
Aboriginal people(s): Misissagua Nation;
Aboriginal individual(s): Acheton, Neworguequah, Paushitaunonquitoke and Wababagigo;
Other party(ies): King George III
Type of Document: Surrender of reserve lands - Docket title: "The Mississagua Nation of Indians to His Majesty - Release"
Specific purpose(s): Release of certain tracts of land, and their woods, waters and fisheries except 200 acres of parcel D and for sale or lease etc, the proceeds to be used "for the maintenance and religious instruction of the people of the Mississagua Nation"
Land involved: Approximately 8940 acres of certain parcels of reserve land in the Township of Toronto, County of York, and Township of Trafalgar, County of Walton - See document
Form: Manuscript original

The document is on parchment. The top edge is scalloped. There is red ink on the left border and at the beginning of the text. The document has five doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and seven red wax seals situated on seven blue ribbons woven through parchment.

The parchment brittle. The ink is faded and illegible in some spots. There are also small ink smears.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 50-53.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9938.

IT 069 - copy of surrender, IT 070 - map copy